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ravenHey, y'all asked. These, for those who haven't been following the endless saga, are some of the ad hoc recipes my flatmates and I have come up with in three weeks of having our own kitchen. The best ones get written down and named, so here they are. For the record, nothing we've made has been poisonous or even actually inedible - it's all come out quite all right. (Notable borderline cases - I was trying to make rice last week whilst Claire told me at great length about Sparta versus the Athenian Empire, so I sort of forgot what I was doing and burned the bottom third of it, and also the recipe that was named as "That Pasta Claire Made That Nearly Killed Everyone", which was utterly delicious but had the fat content of a tub of lard. I ate three mouthfuls and was full, and also sure I was about to have a heart attack. It has been excluded from this list.)
Chicken á la Pat and Iona
To feed five, you need:
boneless, skinless chicken, cubed
sunflower oil
two onions, sliced
two peppers, sliced
chicken stock
parsley, chopped
chilli sauce
creamed tomatoes (or tinned chopped ones will do)
soy sauce
salt
(and optionally, a pinch from Iona's Spice Jar, which contains turmeric, chilli powder, powdered coriander, garam masala and more salt)
Put some oil in a wok, toss in some cumin and wait until they start popping. Then add the - sliced - onions and stir-fry until translucent, then add the peppers. When they're done, get them out the pan and put them to one side.
Put a little more oil in the pan, add the chicken and half the stock cube and fry until the pink colour disappears. Then add the other half of the stock cube, crumbled, add the tomatoes, the pinch from the spice jar, the chopped parsley, a bit ofsalt, a good shake of chilli sauce and soy sauce, both to taste, and stir well.
Lower the heat, cover and simmer for ten minutes. Check the chicken's cooked, and if it is, you're done. Easy-peasy.
Chilli cinnamon rock pancakes
Again to feed five, you need:
margarine
plain flour
cinnamon powder
brown sugar
two tablespoons of milk
an egg
I have no idea of the quantities here. Get a big mixing bowl, throw in half a 250g tub of margarine, and (very approximately) 100g of flour and sugar. Add a heaped teaspoon of cinnamon, stick your fingers in and knead it to a doughy breadcrumb consistency. Then break an egg in a bowl, add the milk and whisk, or if you're us and don't have a whisk, hit it with a fork. Once done, add it to the dough and mix it so it's a sort even goo. Put said goo in irregular lumps on a greased baking tray and bake at 200 degrees Celsius for twenty minutes. They come out as large, flat, not exactly artistic things that nevertheless taste quite good. (Addendum, having done this recipe more than once now, use the little paper doily cup things, they're much better and stop them being pancakes.)
(This recipe may work better with sodium bicarbonate. I haven't tried that yet, so can't vouch for it.)
Scratch that, it really does. Add three teaspoons of baking soda or bicarb to the above amount.
(Also, Claire and I tried a variation tonight - the above quantities, plus the rest of a tin of mint hot chocolate and some instant coffee. And we forgot the baking soda, but it still came out beautifully, so maybe it really is idiot-proof.)
Chilli chicken
To feed four as part of a meal (you need some rice with this one, I think), you need:
sunflower oil
3 cloves of garlic
a bit of ginger
boneless, skinless chicken breasts, diced (although we also tried it with chicken thighs for reasons of economy, and it came out all right)
soy sauce
chilli sauce to taste
one large onion
two peppers, different colours for reasons of aesthetics
pinch of sugar
Slice up the onions and peppers and fry them in a little oil. Once they're done, take them out of the pan and put them on one side. Chop the garlic and ginger as finely as possible, toss them into the pan with a little oil and fry for a minute. Add the diced chicken breast. (If using chicken thighs still on bone, skin them and cut deep slits so as to let in the sauce.) Fry them until the pink colour's quite gone, and then cover them well with soy sauce. They should be well coated, with a little extra sauce bubbling at the bottom. Lower the heat, cover them and leave to simmer for ten minutes - they're done when most of the soy sauce has disappeared and the chicken has taken on its colour. Then add a sprinking of chilli sauce, however much you like, and the pinch of sugar, add the peppers and onions, stir well and leave another minute just to reheat the vegetables, and you're done.
Heat-Resistant Pasta
to feed fivethousand, you need:
two large potatoes
one red onion
three mugs of any kind of pasta
one tin chopped tomatoes
grated cheese, lots of
soy sauce, chilli sauce, garlic puree, really just the usual
Peel and chop the potatoes into as small pieces as possible, and fry in olive oil while someone else, i.e, Iona who always ENDS UP CHOPPING OMG, chops up the onions and adds them after the potatoes have begun to soften. In the meantime, put the pasta on, covered with water from the kettle and don't let it boil. The pasta should be al dente before the potatoes are done - get someone else to drain it, again usually Iona because she has the heat tolerance of a salamander, and put it on one side. once the potatoes are done, and you have ascertained this by feeding them off a wooden spoon to anyone who happens to pass through the kitchen, add the chopped tomatoes, the cheese, the various types of sauce, mix it all together and let the water from the tomatoes bubble off a bit. Once it's done, mix it with the pasta on the plates.
(This recipe is heat-resistant because if, unlike us, you are intelligent enough to notice that the reason your oven doesn't work is because it isn't plugged in, you can slightly undercook the potatoes and the pasta, and mix them all together, with the tomatoes and sauce in a large oven-proof dish. Put the grated cheese on the top rather than mixing it in, and stick it in the oven at two hundred degrees Celsius to bake for ten minutes.)
Impromptu Omelette of Song And Story
To feed three (with bread or rice or something, because the omelette itself is very rich), you need:
five eggs
two tomatoes
one large onion
leftover sandwich ham
chilli powder
salt
Chop the onions as finely as possible and fry them in a little olive oil. In the meantime, break the eggs into a bowl, add a pinch of salt and chilli powder and put on one side. Chop up the tomatoes, again as finely as possible, and tear the ham into little bits. Once the onions are just about done, put everything else in and cover the base of the pan with the mixture. Let it cook until the edges are browning and coming away from the pan edge a bit, and then accept straight off that you will never flip it over cleanly. We used a fish slice to cut it in half and turned over each bit separately, and we still made a bit of a mess, but we didn't burn it. Once the other side is done, take the pan off the heat and serve.
Claire and Iona Are Filthy Scousers And Make Irish Stew
(a recipe that sounds uncannily like vegetable stir fry)
To feed five:
two carrots
a pepper and a half
an onion and a half
two potatoes, cut finely
leftover sandwich ham
soy sauce
chilli sauce
noodles
cumin
Put the noodles on to boil, with a little salt. Chop the potatoes as finely as possible and fry in oil with a sprinkling of cumin, and be aware that it takes ages. Once the potatoes are soft, add sliced peppers, sliced onions, chopped carrots, the leftover ham, and lots of soy sauce and chilli sauce. While all this is stir-frying, drain the noodles and toss them into the pan. Mix well, add a little more soy sauce, make sure the potatoes actually are soft and serve.
(I believe the original definition of Irish stew, and scouse too, I think, was everything you had in your kitchen cooked up together. Barring the demerara sugar, the above ingredients list comprised everything we had in the kitchen last night, so in it all went.)
I do hope that all these are of some use to somebody. Just about everything in them is optional, no measurements are accurate, and you can add just about anything you like to them.
And soy sauce is the food of the gods, apparently.
Chicken á la Pat and Iona
To feed five, you need:
boneless, skinless chicken, cubed
sunflower oil
two onions, sliced
two peppers, sliced
chicken stock
parsley, chopped
chilli sauce
creamed tomatoes (or tinned chopped ones will do)
soy sauce
salt
(and optionally, a pinch from Iona's Spice Jar, which contains turmeric, chilli powder, powdered coriander, garam masala and more salt)
Put some oil in a wok, toss in some cumin and wait until they start popping. Then add the - sliced - onions and stir-fry until translucent, then add the peppers. When they're done, get them out the pan and put them to one side.
Put a little more oil in the pan, add the chicken and half the stock cube and fry until the pink colour disappears. Then add the other half of the stock cube, crumbled, add the tomatoes, the pinch from the spice jar, the chopped parsley, a bit ofsalt, a good shake of chilli sauce and soy sauce, both to taste, and stir well.
Lower the heat, cover and simmer for ten minutes. Check the chicken's cooked, and if it is, you're done. Easy-peasy.
Chilli cinnamon rock pancakes
Again to feed five, you need:
margarine
plain flour
cinnamon powder
brown sugar
two tablespoons of milk
an egg
I have no idea of the quantities here. Get a big mixing bowl, throw in half a 250g tub of margarine, and (very approximately) 100g of flour and sugar. Add a heaped teaspoon of cinnamon, stick your fingers in and knead it to a doughy breadcrumb consistency. Then break an egg in a bowl, add the milk and whisk, or if you're us and don't have a whisk, hit it with a fork. Once done, add it to the dough and mix it so it's a sort even goo. Put said goo in irregular lumps on a greased baking tray and bake at 200 degrees Celsius for twenty minutes. They come out as large, flat, not exactly artistic things that nevertheless taste quite good. (Addendum, having done this recipe more than once now, use the little paper doily cup things, they're much better and stop them being pancakes.)
Scratch that, it really does. Add three teaspoons of baking soda or bicarb to the above amount.
(Also, Claire and I tried a variation tonight - the above quantities, plus the rest of a tin of mint hot chocolate and some instant coffee. And we forgot the baking soda, but it still came out beautifully, so maybe it really is idiot-proof.)
Chilli chicken
To feed four as part of a meal (you need some rice with this one, I think), you need:
sunflower oil
3 cloves of garlic
a bit of ginger
boneless, skinless chicken breasts, diced (although we also tried it with chicken thighs for reasons of economy, and it came out all right)
soy sauce
chilli sauce to taste
one large onion
two peppers, different colours for reasons of aesthetics
pinch of sugar
Slice up the onions and peppers and fry them in a little oil. Once they're done, take them out of the pan and put them on one side. Chop the garlic and ginger as finely as possible, toss them into the pan with a little oil and fry for a minute. Add the diced chicken breast. (If using chicken thighs still on bone, skin them and cut deep slits so as to let in the sauce.) Fry them until the pink colour's quite gone, and then cover them well with soy sauce. They should be well coated, with a little extra sauce bubbling at the bottom. Lower the heat, cover them and leave to simmer for ten minutes - they're done when most of the soy sauce has disappeared and the chicken has taken on its colour. Then add a sprinking of chilli sauce, however much you like, and the pinch of sugar, add the peppers and onions, stir well and leave another minute just to reheat the vegetables, and you're done.
Heat-Resistant Pasta
to feed five
two large potatoes
one red onion
three mugs of any kind of pasta
one tin chopped tomatoes
grated cheese, lots of
soy sauce, chilli sauce, garlic puree, really just the usual
Peel and chop the potatoes into as small pieces as possible, and fry in olive oil while someone else, i.e, Iona who always ENDS UP CHOPPING OMG, chops up the onions and adds them after the potatoes have begun to soften. In the meantime, put the pasta on, covered with water from the kettle and don't let it boil. The pasta should be al dente before the potatoes are done - get someone else to drain it, again usually Iona because she has the heat tolerance of a salamander, and put it on one side. once the potatoes are done, and you have ascertained this by feeding them off a wooden spoon to anyone who happens to pass through the kitchen, add the chopped tomatoes, the cheese, the various types of sauce, mix it all together and let the water from the tomatoes bubble off a bit. Once it's done, mix it with the pasta on the plates.
(This recipe is heat-resistant because if, unlike us, you are intelligent enough to notice that the reason your oven doesn't work is because it isn't plugged in, you can slightly undercook the potatoes and the pasta, and mix them all together, with the tomatoes and sauce in a large oven-proof dish. Put the grated cheese on the top rather than mixing it in, and stick it in the oven at two hundred degrees Celsius to bake for ten minutes.)
Impromptu Omelette of Song And Story
To feed three (with bread or rice or something, because the omelette itself is very rich), you need:
five eggs
two tomatoes
one large onion
leftover sandwich ham
chilli powder
salt
Chop the onions as finely as possible and fry them in a little olive oil. In the meantime, break the eggs into a bowl, add a pinch of salt and chilli powder and put on one side. Chop up the tomatoes, again as finely as possible, and tear the ham into little bits. Once the onions are just about done, put everything else in and cover the base of the pan with the mixture. Let it cook until the edges are browning and coming away from the pan edge a bit, and then accept straight off that you will never flip it over cleanly. We used a fish slice to cut it in half and turned over each bit separately, and we still made a bit of a mess, but we didn't burn it. Once the other side is done, take the pan off the heat and serve.
Claire and Iona Are Filthy Scousers And Make Irish Stew
(a recipe that sounds uncannily like vegetable stir fry)
To feed five:
two carrots
a pepper and a half
an onion and a half
two potatoes, cut finely
leftover sandwich ham
soy sauce
chilli sauce
noodles
cumin
Put the noodles on to boil, with a little salt. Chop the potatoes as finely as possible and fry in oil with a sprinkling of cumin, and be aware that it takes ages. Once the potatoes are soft, add sliced peppers, sliced onions, chopped carrots, the leftover ham, and lots of soy sauce and chilli sauce. While all this is stir-frying, drain the noodles and toss them into the pan. Mix well, add a little more soy sauce, make sure the potatoes actually are soft and serve.
(I believe the original definition of Irish stew, and scouse too, I think, was everything you had in your kitchen cooked up together. Barring the demerara sugar, the above ingredients list comprised everything we had in the kitchen last night, so in it all went.)
I do hope that all these are of some use to somebody. Just about everything in them is optional, no measurements are accurate, and you can add just about anything you like to them.
And soy sauce is the food of the gods, apparently.
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